About the Department

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) offers a broad undergraduate and graduate curriculum, based on the application and theoretical foundations of computer science. CSE students gain breadth and depth of knowledge in a multitude of specialties, including: software engineering, data mining, bioinformatics, human computer interaction, graphics, architecture, numerical analysis, and artificial intelligence. Students are instructed by internationally renowned faculty and well prepared for industry positions, competitive graduate programs, and academic positions.

In addition to academic work, the CSE department also has one of the nation’s top computer science research programs (for a full listing of specialties visit Research Areas). Supported through government and industry funding, faculty and graduate student research helps define and expand the current and future use of technology.

The CSE department consists of 40 tenure-track faculty, 13 staff members, 550 undergraduate students, and 370 graduate students. Each year the University awards approximately 150 bachelor’s, 100 master’s, and 20 doctoral degrees to CSE students.

For more information about the department, please see our About Us page which includes a special section entitled CSE Excellence: By the numbers.

What's New

CSE Professor Janardan featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education

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The Chronicle of Higher Education featured CSE Professor Ravi Janardan in a news story focused on the benefits and perils of video recorded class lectures. In the story, Janardan expressed concern that video recorded lectures for students can lead to lower class attendance. In a compromise, the story reports that lecture videos are made available for non-distance learning students 10 days after the lecture, necessitating class attendance. Distance learning students can view the recordings immediately. For more information about the story, visit “The Lectures Are Recorded, So Why Go To Class?”

CSE Grad Students Awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

The University of Minnesota’s Graduate School awarded CSE graduate students Yu (Jason) Gu and Faraz Mirzaei the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Recipients of the 2008-2009 fellowship will receive a stipend of $22,000 for the academic year, plus full tuition for thesis credits. Candidates are nominated by their graduate program's Director of Graduate Studies. Approximately 75 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are awarded annually. For more information, visit DDF.

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Science Watch, a publication tracking research trends and performance, ranked the U of M CSE department 9^th for the citation impact of published research papers among the top 100 federally funded universities. The department’s papers were measured between 2001 and 2005.

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